USCGC Pontchartrain (1928)
![]() USCGC Pontchartrain, underway, pre-World War II.
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Name | USCGC Pontchartrain (1928) |
Namesake | Lake Pontchartrain |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 29 November 1927 |
Launched | 16 June 1928 |
Commissioned | 13 October 1928 |
Decommissioned | 30 April 1941 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy, 30 April 1941 |
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Name | HMS Hartland (Y00) |
Commissioned | 30 April 1941 |
Fate | Sunk off Oran Harbour, 8 November 1942. |
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Displacement | 2,075 long tons (2,108 t) |
Length | 250 ft (76 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (13 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 11 in (3.94 m) |
Propulsion | 1 × General Electric turbine-driven 3,350 shp (2,500 kW) electric motor, 2 boilers |
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Complement | 97 |
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USCGC Pontchartrain (1928) was a Template:Sclass- belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 16 June 1928 and commissioned on 13 October 1928 .[1] After 13 years of service in the Coast Guard, she was transferred to the Royal Navy as part of the Lend-Lease Act. She was sunk in 1942 off Oran Harbor.
Career
US Coast Guard - Pontchartrain
After commissioning in November 1928, Pontchartrain was homeported in Norfolk, Virginia and assigned to the Bering Sea Patrol.[2]
As part of the Lend-Lease Act she was transferred to the Royal Navy where she was renamed HMS Hartland (Y00) and commissioned on 30 April 1941.[3] In November 1942, while taking part in Operation Reservist, she was sunk by gunfire from the French destroyer Typhon off Oran Harbor taking 34 crew members with her.
See also
References
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "USCGC Pontchartrain". uboat.net. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ^ "Pontchartrain (1928)" (PDF). USCG. US Coast Guard. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "HMS Hartland (Y 00)". uboat.net. Retrieved 24 July 2015.